tionists of France). "Opposed to the black imperialists” (who favored an empire or monarchy). A-chil'lēş is described in Homer's "Iliad " (l'i-ad) as nourishing his wrath apart, and not entering the fight until after his friend Pa-trō'elus was killed. "Hôtel des Invalides " (ō-tāl' dă zăng-vălēd'), (a celebrated military asylum in Paris, for disabled soldiers). "Whose mother had charged him to return with his shield or upon it " (alluding to the Spartan mother's charge to her son, "to return with his shield ”—i. e., having defended it, and not thrown it away in flight—“ or upon it ”—i. e., brought home upon his shield, having bravely died in the fight). II. Peace' ful, fierçe'-ly, wrěs'-tled (res ́ld), in-çes'-sant-ly, fōre' leg, çēased (sēst), shield, eŏm'-bat-ants, mi'-ero-seõpe, war'-rior (war'yer), trō'-phieş, Con'-eord (kongk'ŭrd). III. Unequal (un is a prefix meaning not—what does unequal mean ?). In what compound words is the hyphen omitted? (In very common ones; e. g., noonday.) IV. Pertinacity, assiduously, duellum (Latin, duellum, a fight between two persons), bellum (a Latin word meaning war, originally spelled duellum, and meaning a fight between two parties), divested, internecine (inter tween, necare to slay-mutually destructive), feelers. = be V. The style of this piece is an imitation of the heroic style of Homer's "Iliad," and is properly a "mock heroic." The description of the affairs of the ants with the same elevated style that one would treat the affairs of men gives the effect of a "quiet humor." This is, in fact, often a characteristic of Thoreau's style. His "A Week on the Concord and Merrimac Rivers" borrows its grandeur of style from Homer's "Odyssey" to describe the unromantic incidents of a ride in a small boat down a small, sluggish river, for a few miles. The intention of the author is twofold: half-seriously endowing the incidents of everyday life with epic dignity, in the belief that there is nothing mean and trivial to the poet and philosopher, and that it is the man that adds dignity to the occasion, and not the occasion that dignifies the man; half-satirically treating the human events alluded to as though they were non-heroic, and only fit to be applied to the events of animal life. VIII. THE SOLDIER'S DREAM. 1. Our bugles sang truce; for the night cloud had lowered, And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky; And thousands had sunk on the ground overpowered— The weary to sleep, and the wounded to die. |